Tag Archives: video

Imagine all the people: Living life in health

Four conferences over two weeks … there’s so much swirling in my head that I could write a post for each of eight different topics. But tonight I landed on a central theme after watching the video of Regina Holliday describe the painting she created during the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco. She captures [...]
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Baking a pie and wondering what my grandkids will call me

I’m baking a peach pie and it got me into a reflective mood. My friend Dr. Mark Groshek posted this week about the fun he had with his nephews while they re-created the Titanic’s menu. I always have fun in the kitchen with my 9-year-old daughter, but this time I was going solo. Which meant [...]
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Family teepee project: Too many chiefs; not enough Indians

I love my family, for all its weirdness. My aunt plans to live in a teepee in the badlands on the Colorado-Utah border, so of course the family got together to build it. We didn’t know what we were doing, but we had an instruction book and lots  of opinions. The canvas fit the tangle [...]
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Poet brings vision statement to life

Tears of pride welled up yesterday as I watched a corporate video. A corporate video! Diane Gage-Lofgren, our national VP of communications and PR, had asked a poet/performance artist  to bring life to our communication team’s new vision statement. A stroke of genius. I will forever have a visual and resonant image to add soul [...]
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Can you visualize deforestation?

90 acres of trees are cut down each minute. A striking statement, but what does it mean to me? This video by Maya Lin (creator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial) helped me grasp the enormity of the statistic. The haunting melody by Brian Eno also transfixed me. Others who have blogged/tweeted about this also mention [...]
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Video storytelling is a whole different game

I’ve been working for a couple of years on my video technical skills. In the past few months, I’ve concentrated more on the storytelling part. I have a long way to go, as my Vimeo portfolio will attest. Kai gives Granny a knitting lesson from Steve Krizman on Vimeo. What I’ve learned so far: Video [...]
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Bioscience vs. PETA: The told story

A researcher once called me to his lab, spitting mad at PETA. His inbox was filled with nasty-grams, spurred on by a PETA campaign against his research, which involved killing small animals. He wanted me to help him publish an op-ed in which he methodically laid out the reasons for using animals in research that [...]
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A slimed pizza is worth more than 1,000 words

Three signs that video storytelling has become the topic du jour in the marketing and PR world: I’m blogging about it, and I am usually the next to last person to spot a trend. Nearly all the seminar/webinar/conference invitations I get these days have a come-on like “harnessing the power of online video…” The Dark [...]
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The Goddess’ revenge spells oppprtunity for video

It looks like the Goddess is making a comeback over the alphabet, and that is good news for my daughter. Leonard Shlain argues that in the mists of time, the masculine / left-brained / inventors of the alphabet staged a coup over the feminine / right-brained / painters of the pictograph. In his book The Alphabet Versus the [...]
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